Today Pat and I were off to Kuranda. This is a town in the mountains which we traveled on the old railway tracks constructed in 1897 and completed four years later. The brave men had to purchase their own picks and shovels to work on the tracks. They cut through mountains to make fifteen tunnels. Twenty-six men died from falls, falling rocks, and premature blasting.
The town was small and quaint. Our return to Cannes was by a seven kilometer gondola. Upon our descent we saw something pretty novel--water skiing without a boat! Skiers held onto a rope and were attached to an underground cable pulley system. They could water ski for 45 minutes a session in a man made lake...pretty cool, eh?
We left Cannes on a 7:15pm flight to Darwin.
